Novelas españolas. El serrano de las Alpujarras; y El cuadro misterioso
Brunswick: imprenta de Griffin. Se halla de Venta en la Libreria de Colman - Portland, 1830. First edition, the first of two issues as outlined in BAL; 12mo, pp. 80; original cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards, front cover loose, but present; spine perished; textblock clean and sound. This work is dedicated to the students of Bowdoin College by the editor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Also with a preface by him. The text is selected from George Washington Montgomery's Tareas de un Solitario o Nueva Coleccion de Novelas, Madrid, 1829. According to the preface the two stories contained herein are Spanish versions of Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," and "The Young Italian." BAL 12044. Item #55184
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